VB.NET Getting and Setting a datalist in UserControl

[Caradog]

Guys, I got a bit of problem. I've done this before but for the life of me I can't find the code.

I have a usercontrol which populates a datalist of names. This is done once on pageload.

On the aspx/vb which includes this usercontrol (which has already rendered the datalist of names), I need to reset the values in the datalist with new ones.

How do I expose the datalist from the usercontrol on the page its included on?

 

[vbkris]

by providing a function in ur user control that will rebind the data???

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[Caradog]

Sure so long as I can pass a var to it. WHat I have tried is creating a public sub in hte usercontrol to just display some text as a test. Then on the calling page referenced the control like so:

Private WithEvents ucMyControl as MyControl

Then I have tried to initate the function in the usecontrol by passing
ucMyControl.mySubName()

But all I get back is "object reference not set" error.

 

[vbkris]

>>Private WithEvents ucMyControl as MyControl

that cannot be done to an ASCX control (Not if u r using Code Behind)! u have to use LoadControl() function at runtime and load it...

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